Elder Law & Medicaid Planning South Dakota
Drafting Personal Care Agreements to Legally Pay Family Caregivers in South Dakota
Handing a check or transferring cash to a devoted daughter, sibling, or neighbor who spends twenty hours a week helping an aging parent in Sioux Falls or Rapid City stay out of a n...
Defending Your Estate from South Dakota Medicaid Estate Recovery Program (MERP)
Receiving a demand letter from the state shortly after losing a parent or spouse in Sioux Falls, Rapid City, or Aberdeen is a jarring experience for grieving families. Under the So...
The 60-Month Medicaid Look-Back Period in South Dakota: Timelines and Penalty Rules
When a parent or spouse in Sioux Falls, Rapid City, or Aberdeen experiences a stroke or progressive dementia, the immediate transition into a skilled nursing facility creates an ur...
Spousal Impoverishment Rules in South Dakota: Protecting Assets for the Healthy Spouse
When a husband or wife in Sioux Falls, Rapid City, or rural South Dakota enters a skilled nursing facility, the healthy partner remaining at home often fears losing a lifetime of s...
Protecting the Family Farm from Medicaid Spend-Down in South Dakota
Across the agricultural heartland of Minnehaha, Brown, Brookings, and Pennington counties, multi-generational farming and ranching families often find themselves land rich and cash...
How the Caregiver Child Exemption Works for South Dakota Nursing Home Medicaid
Across South Dakota-from Sioux Falls and Rapid City to Brookings, Watertown, and Yankton-countless adult children put their own careers and retirement savings on hold to move in wi...